Today's hearing for Penn State administrators is getting underway shortly. Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is the only one present of three Penn State administrators who were expected in court today for a hearing on charges relating to the alleged Sandusky case cover-up.

Lawyers for former Penn State President Graham
Spanier, former senior vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic
director Tim Curley will make their best case as to why the second half of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse probe was so legally flawed that the cover-up charges against them should not proceed.

View full sizeFormer Penn State President Graham Spanier arrives in Dauphin County Court Dec. 17, 2013 for a hearing on an alleged cover-up of the Sandusky case.

Or
if they do, the lawyers will ask that prosecutors not be permitted to
use either the defendants’ grand jury testimony from early 2011 as
evidence, or to call one-time Penn State Counsel Cynthia Baldwin as a
witness against them.

The defendants are charged with lying before
the grand jury about what they knew of early allegations against
Sandusky, the one-time Penn State football hero now convicted of the
serial sexual abuse of boys he met through his involvement with The
Second Mile charity.

Spanier,
Curley and Schultz are accused of failing to report an alleged 2001
assault to authorities and then, years later as the Sandusky probe
intensified, attempting to cover up what they knew about that case and
how they responded to it.

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